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I’ve done these cupcakes many times, in multiple colorways, for a number of baby showers. My favorite was when friends of the mom-to-be stole uneaten baby heads off of plates and hid them around the house to be discovered later. Other parties consume the fondant heads with hardly a second thought!

I don’t normally post photos of my inspiration for cakes, because I just feel like it’s a Cake Wrecks Missed Marks waiting to happen. But, I’m going to take the leap. (: The shower organizer gave me total creative control, but gave a couple suggestions. She sent this picture, saying that she fell in love with this cake on Pinterest. She also suggested a baby/bathtub theme. The nursery-to-be is going to be outfitted in a jungle theme, but I wasn’t given explicit instructions to theme it up. I decided on a variation on the photo because I just love the combo of turquoise and lime, plus I feel like so many baby showers are all baby-fied and poor mom gets lost in it all. I wanted to give her an elegant grown-up baby-shower cake.

I wound up coloring a lot of turquoise fondant, so I did a lighter teal on top in place of plain white. Also, I should use sugar pearls more often – they’re so lovely.